Project 5 box - Live

[Angelie]

It's finally up. Four 22" monitors + Laptop. Yay.

[Aindayen]

Very nice Ang.

Do you macro your players together or are just using the N52 for attack/spells on dps?

Ain

[Lonskils]

It's finally up. Four 22" monitors + Laptop. Yay.


Where is "your" mage?

[Angelie]

Where is "your" mage?

Human background has so much glare it's hard to get a good pictuer...Had to take that of a Nightelf's.

Aind - I currently use N52s to auto nuke until the Vetra broadaster arrives. Then it's another new learning curve how to use them as I'm accustomed to just having repeated auto nuke on Angelie's target (while she manually targets a warriors target so dps target doesnt change).

It's also a weird way of playing with so many big screens. My eyes actually hurt after 1 hour of playing. And having my main box split into 2 computers is also a bit getting used to as i normally just alt tab to heal. Now, I actually drag my mouse button across from lower left to lower right to heal.

Over all, it's a nice set up. There really is no more challenge in PVE with just running instances as a single character, even 2. Like most people from Dual-boxing.com, the only thing left to do is multibox - or quit.

[Kallaill]

only 5 box? weak .... =|

[Talas]

I bet that corner of the room has more power draw than a combined washer/dryer set! Do you have an outside vent!?!?

[Aindayen]

Where is "your" mage?

I'm right here!

Ain

[Lonskils]

Aind you should let me play you, I could actually get you some gear. All I would need to do would be to change your spec and drop engineering =p

[Aindayen]

Aind you should let me play you, I could actually get you some gear. All I would need to do would be to change your spec and drop engineering =p

Lons I would love you forever if you would do such things!

PM me and I'll give you the info.

Ain

[Lonskils]

I'm on Lonskils on AIM and Yahoo or you can just send me the info on the boards, I cant promise OMG results but it has to be better than what you have now.

[Angelie]

Hoho - I got featured in the frontpage of the dual box website :p

Kewl!

http://www.dual-boxing.com/

[Arawn]

if I have my main monitor pluged into my video card, could I just plug the 2nd one into the onboard video card?

[Angelie]

if I have my main monitor pluged into my video card, could I just plug the 2nd one into the onboard video card?

Your video card should have 2 ports you can plug into for a 2nd monitor (you might need a DVI to VGA adapter though). If you only have one port to plug for your 2nd monitor, just get a video splitter (http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10104&cs_id=1010404&p_id=2679&seq=1&format=2&style=) for like 5 bucks.

:)

[aganan]

if I have my main monitor pluged into my video card, could I just plug the 2nd one into the onboard video card?

Arawn, I run exactly this setup and it works great. You have to select "windowed mode" and "maximized" from video options in WoW, but I can mouse back and forth between the two displays easily.

It would be nice to finally upgrade my computer to a dual-core processor, though, because video streaming does lag the game a bit...

[Lonskils]

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/a-real-raid-array/world-of-warcraft-addict-constructs-massive-47-pc-setup-275902.php

[Arawn]

Your video card should have 2 ports you can plug into for a 2nd monitor (you might need a DVI to VGA adapter though). If you only have one port to plug for your 2nd monitor, just get a video splitter (http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10104&cs_id=1010404&p_id=2679&seq=1&format=2&style=) for like 5 bucks.

:)

Does that fit in the VGA slot?

I really only want to do this so I don't have to alt tab, and maybe chat up the guys while playing!!

[Arawn]

So this guy said that I can just plug my "crap monitor" into my onboard slot but I'd have to make some settings adjustment. What adjustment?

[Angelie]

So this guy said that I can just plug my "crap monitor" into my onboard slot but I'd have to make some settings adjustment. What adjustment?

Yes - you can just plug in your "crap" monitor onto your onboard (motherboard) VGA slot, as Aganan advised.

It just means to go to your PROPERTIES (right click on desktop, select PROPERTIES, then choose SETTINGS) to fix the position or way you want your display to happen (ie two independent screens, 2 screens acting as one, or clone of each other - I'm guessing you wanted the first).

Furthermore, you would have to probably make your WOW as windowed mode (maximized or not) so you can just drag your mouse to the other monitor onto your chat screen.

Hope that helps.

[Angelie]

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